Subway Doppelgangers
No matter how good I think I look when I leave the house (and I thought I looked pretty ok this morning) when I get a ghoulish, shadowy glimpse of my reflection in the subway […]
Tragedies
Pugilism
Speaking of books (I think I just was), I rely on the Brooklyn Public Library for providing reading material. They’re pretty good (and even have a Gary Lutz book, not the short story collection I […]
But What Does That Make Carroll Gardens?
Periodically, I go through patches where I try to be more of a reader. One of the last times (jesus, apparently, seven years ago) I picked up a book by an author named Gary Lutz […]
Countertop Culture
Initially I was excited about Show Me Nonstop (the amount of new this and new that I sift through each morning before actually getting any work done is sad—and generally not inspiring), a site that’s […]
Yes, There Was An Internet in 2001
A few weeks ago I kept typing 2001 instead of 2011 (my typing skills in general have started diminishing over the past few year). I would not say that I yearn for the past, despite […]
Worse or Worser
Now that my limit of New York Times articles had been set to beginning-of-month zero, I’m strategizing how to make September’s twenty last. After only clicking into the Fashion & Style section, I’m already torn. […]
I Will Give the Show One Chance
There are times when you’re being a dick and you don’t even mean to. Like when I was a freshman in a basic drawing class critique and I asked why a woman had chosen to […]
What Hubris Will Get You
Turns out I’m not a genius after all (shocking, I know). My hair color only looked good for one week and despite using permanent dye, the warm tones have come back and the dark, blue-black-covered […]
Buses, Boats, Whatever
Ha, one of my first NYC humiliations was not knowing what a jitney was. Finding out when the earliest jitney left from the Upper West Side for a demanding celebrity landscape architect (to celebrities, I […]
Poorly Shod
I’ve barely owned these shoes for a month and I’ve already destroyed the cork heels. They're already in worse shape than the older version of these sandals I've worn for three years. What gives? I’m […]